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I want to discuss what I see as one of the biggest gains emanating the recent Women's World Cup - the perception of Football.…
Coaching is an integral part of sports. Many a playing career has been created or destroyed by a coach. Coaches can have a huge…
Part of football's issues over the decades has been its one-upmanship. The professional football community in Australia is polarised between various groups all thinking…
What a story this is! There are two emails that together have a lot of words so I am going to summarise this reasonably…
Something just feels different this time. Football has not made war cries, no 'choose football as your second code', or 'we are coming to…
Ange Postecoglou recently said that football has had a number of false dawns. When everything looked like going ahead, just like now, infighting killed…
This is a short article that is to the point, and open for discussion by the Roar community. On Monday, Brisbane Roar versus Peninsula…
I'm a football fan with a soft spot for rugby via the Woodies, as I used to live near TG Millner Field. Geoff Parkes'…
In my life I have watched and studied a lot of various sports management systems and leaders in sporting codes. In Australia, two sports…
Four recent sporting competitions in Australia have moved to streaming services, these being the EPL to Optus, Super Rugby and the European Football Champions…
Football has suffered with poor management since the end of World War Two. Beyond this, mainstream media has never treated football with respect. In…
Football in Australia has many levels, including grassroots park teams, state associations, many semi-professional teams, and two professional competitions in the A-League and W-League.…
Can football in Australia be saved at a professional level? For the first time I am starting to wonder if the infighting that has…
The late Johnny Warren at a gala day in the mid-1960s at Newcastle said with these player numbers we must be able to lift…
I am by nature an optimist. Another natural inclination of mine is look for the good when everyone says bad and look for bad…
Fox Sports and the free-to-air networks have significant fixed costs running their businesses, meaning that regardless of revenue, expenses are guaranteed. Interest and leasing…
To create a second division with promotion and relegation to follow in Australia, we first need to develop respect for Australian professional football. This…
My reading of the tea leaves is the burning question of when and under what circumstances do we introduce promotion and relegation? There are…
Football in Australia has rarely been united, aside from our support for the national teams. In fact, most of our history is made of…
'Go or no go' is a business term I became familiar with in my early 20s. My first introduction was when working on Rupert…
Waz
The truest statement you have ever made… and I have been banging on for years we need to lift crowds to 15K…
I know this is an old record for me…
BUT
The MLS is arguably the league that has grown the most over the last 10 to 15 years…. This was done on a very poor broadcast deal, but essentially it was their crowds kept them afloat… most season over 20K average per match….
Tis about tiem APL made crowds not broadcasters there key focus
A-League report card: Frustrated fans, crap scheduling, Socceroo mystery men and wasted money, but the brand is strong
Think we will win on Thursday
AFC Cup interzonal semis preview: Is the comeback on, or will the Mariners coast through the second leg?
So do i
AFC Cup interzonal semis preview: Is the comeback on, or will the Mariners coast through the second leg?
lol and true.
Victory bounce back in Original Rivalry, Mariners nab top spot, can Rudan turn it around?
Mike
A simple test can be done to support your case, take all the A-L teams from the start, and list the number of players who became Socceroos and break them into 3 groups,
Group 1, Started in A-L teams academy to first team to Socceroo
Group 2, Started in an A-L team as their contract to Socceroo
Group 3, Started in another team for a short while, moved to a new team and played their for quite a while to Socceroo… say like Rowles, joined the Mariners after a Roar i year contract were he saw little game time.
My guess would be
1] Mariners
2] Brisbane
3} Adelaide
4} Mel City
Does the A-League do enough to nurture creative players?
AA & Mike & Others
Interesting take on Australian, from a guy in the US talking about the MLS, and it could apply in Australia…… love how he expressed it…. its not word for word but as best I can remember…
To me Football in the US has not learnt to feel and play, to explain its like we know all the notes and all the keys to play the notes in…. we just don’t know how to turn the notes into a song… and as we try and learn tow to sing and play a tune… better musicians mock us for our inexperience, and those not interested in our songs attempt to stop us learning our songs and belittle our music.
However as time goes by we are slowly learning how to construct songs, and how to feel the notes and vary the keys into our tunes…. there used to be only four big bands we made up the fifth some time ago but the other four won’t admit it, that we are now the fourth biggest band and closing in on the third is still neither accepted nor recognised by the other bands.
We must keep practicing our music and learn the deep down meaning that better musicians in our field know and play deep within their souls. In time if we get better people will come to hear us play.
Does the A-League do enough to nurture creative players?
tanks I assume on 10 play
Violence is not 'passion': Wanderers fans chuck a wobbly again... why is it always them?
Off topic
My guess this is going to take some time to appear.
But its a link to what the Indian press think of the Mariners re tomorrows game
https://khelnow.com/football/2024-03-afc-cup-central-coast-mariners
Violence is not 'passion': Wanderers fans chuck a wobbly again... why is it always them?
Gotta agree with the article, I think their support is more for what they represent and how they achieved it more than Football.
Have the Matildas eclipsed the Socceroos? Whatever you think, Australian football fans are in for some exciting times
My tho’s on Twiggy if it all falls over.
I think he will walk away, as the management Australia wide has been poor.
Both Basketball n Football are planning expansion teams with the NRL talking about adding 3 teams.
I can see him looking to a more stable competition
Rebels set to sue Rugby Australia as civil war erupts, Rugby Victoria President barred from summit
Stew
On this issue, maybe its time we listened to what the RBB are saying…. there are two sides to this and if the club and APL had any sense they would be calling in the RBB for a chat… my understanding is they had permission to hang the banner…. then an issue arose out of returning to their seats….
The police to will have their view, but hand on heart, of all the fans that come to the Coast WSW fans are close to if not the best behaved and they always have heaps of police present
Violence is not 'passion': Wanderers fans chuck a wobbly again... why is it always them?
was thinking the same today
How do A-League fans convince police that passion is not a crime?
Mike
Sharing some information.
One of my clients is a very senior police officer, we played in the same over 35 team for years.
I asked him once about the police and A-League crowds, his answer provides an insight I believe into police behaviour pertaining to A-L crowds.
In police training, they often study riots, and the effect they have. The effect in a broad sense is two-fold, first to the parties involved. Second especially if someone is hurt, is the media effect it has on both police and the government of the day.
A riot where people are hurt and where the media will write it up, is somewhere police will do everything to avoid. All information is gathered on riots, how they start, who is involved.
The end result is if there is a one in ten thousand chance a riot will occur that one in ten thousand will be squashed.
I don’t know the solution as Football fans are seen as a potential to riot, that its never happened in Australia, in the mind of the police supports their stance.
History equally says other codes don’t riot, however pass riots overseas plays a huge part in police thinking.
How do A-League fans convince police that passion is not a crime?
Hope that deal goes ahead… from inside sport…
https://www.ftbl.com.au/news/revealed-the-aussie-duo-spearheading-newcastle-jets-takeover-bid-605583
The Roar's A-League Men tips and predictions: Round 19
The girls turned it on tonight.
What a pleasure it was to watch
Perfect 10: Matildas seal ticket to Paris Olympics with Uzbekistan annihilation as Heyman strikes awesome foursome
One hopes we win a medal, would love a final between France and Australia, with us winning of course.
As to gov funding, can’t see it happening, on the Coast the Mariners are the main team, no other teams, the player numbers are something like this, NRL 3.2K, Union 1.2K, AFL .300 K [yes under a 1,000] Football 17K with all teams having waiting lists…. local council no favours, stadium management all or mostly about 3 RL games played each year.
Its like those in charge appoint similar people to take their jobs when they leave and mostly they are League, Union or Cricket folk and most despise Football …. Ange was rigth….
What Olympic glory would mean for Australian football - and why Steph Catley is the right woman to lead the Matildas to it
success is a funny thing…. just on Torres thing when asked Popa said a MV player did a similar thing in the first half so it was consistent…
Torres, runs hard and fast at players with the ball at his feet, he is strong and runs past an often thu people, try running at pace with a ball at your feet and be hit and stay on your feet….
All this assumes that teams like MV are angles and do no wrong.
Doka, is small and no different a number of other players in the league, he is also a very elusive runner,
The Central Coast Mariners are a reminder of what's good about the A-League Men
Bull ….
The Central Coast Mariners are a reminder of what's good about the A-League Men
Thats because Nux play a very defensive counter attacking game,
The Central Coast Mariners are a reminder of what's good about the A-League Men
The Mariners are having one of those seasons everyone dreams about, hope they finish the fairy tail well
The Central Coast Mariners are a reminder of what's good about the A-League Men
Anyone else thing Nizzy should get a Socceroo match to see how he would go at that level.
Just on Barcellos by the holy mother he is tricky, fast, amazing foot speed and ball. control, once he settles in and works out his support play around him he will become very dangerous
The Roar's A-League Men tips and predictions: Round 18
Was worried for a bit…..
Go Mariners
The Roar's A-League Men tips and predictions: Round 18
Mariners be thu to the next stage
AFC Cup interzonal semis preview: Is the comeback on, or will the Mariners coast through the second leg?